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AMD
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Frank Hudziak, Chris Surma, and Leo Merta
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Check out the latest ATI graphics live
and understand the benefits of using an AMD processor in a
virtualized environment.
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ATI – RADEON and FIRE GL. Architecture
of the Barcelona Processor. |
Presenter Name: Frank Hudziak
Presenter Title: Member of Technical Staff, Field
Applications Engineering
Presentation Title: Why the Processor matters for
virtualization.
Understand the architecture and
benefits of AMD’s Opteron Quad-Core processor. If you are
concerned with power, cooling, virtualization or cost in your
server environment you will receive benefit from this
discussion. |
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B-Hive
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FEATURED IN THE NEW 'EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES' LAB UPSTAIRS
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Asaf Wexler and Wenwei Wu |
B-hive Conductor enables data centers
to cost-effectively deliver web-enabled distributed applications
in accordance with corporate service level policies.
B-hive Conductor also enables Service
Level Control for virtualized environments and helps improve
performance, reliability, and predictability while reducing
overall cost.
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B-hive Conductor
Service Level Control for Virtual
Infrastructure. |
No Break-Out |
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Vendor |
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BioPassword
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FEATURED IN THE NEW 'EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES' LAB UPSTAIRS
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Anil Rao |
BioPassword provides unified,
risk-based, multi-factor authentication solution for protecting
digital identities and reducing data and brand risk associated
with credential theft. Our authentication suite is a
software-only, server-based solution, designed for organizations
requiring strong authentication that doesn’t compromise
usability. Scalable to millions of users. Offers multiple
authentication factors. Lowest TCO. |
BioPassword Enterprise Edition,
BioPassword Internet Edition
Tokenless Two-Factor
Authentication. |
No Break Out |
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Vendor |
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Catbird
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FEATURED IN THE NEW 'EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES' LAB UPSTAIRS
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Howard Fried |
Catbird sells comprehensive security
for virtual and physical environments. Via Catbird V-Security
and the Catbird V-Agent virtual appliance, Catbird is the only
company delivering best-practice security for Hypervisor, Guest
VMs and Policy/Regulatory Security Compliance. Catbird is the
winner of the 2007 VARBusiness Technology Innovator Award for
Virtualization. |
Catbird V-Security and the Catbird
V-Agent
Security for VM's. |
Presenter Name: Howard Fried
Presenter Title: Director, Sales Engineering
Presentation Title: Best Practices for Securing Your
Virtual Network
Although virtualization is now
officially mainstream, industry pundits are cautioning against a
rush to virtualize without considering the security implications
of doing so. Traditional security architectures and products are
inadequate for this new topology. What security practices will
and won’t work in this new world? What are the risks to the
business if virtual data centers are left unsecured? This talk
will discuss such security challenges and their potential
solutions, addressing best practices to secure virtualized
environments within a hosted or enterprise data center.
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Citrix 1 - Citrix
Server Virtualization (XenServer)
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Michael O'Neill, Greg Waters, and Steve Jordahl |
Citrix XenServer™ is the simplest and
most efficient way to virtualize servers and deliver a dynamic
data center — a flexible aggregated pool of computing and
storage resources. Citrix XenServer extends the development and
testing resources of the open source Xen® virtualization engine,
delivering easy-to-use dynamic virtualization solutions. Citrix
XenServer combines comprehensive server virtualization
capabilities with unparalleled scalability, performance,
economics, and ease-of-use.
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XenServer Platinum 4.1 |
Presenter Name: Michael O’Neill & Steve Jordahl
Presenter Title: Sales Engineer – Server Virtualization
Presentation Title: Delivering the Dynamic Data Center with
Citrix XenServer
Citrix XenServer is the simplest and
most effective way to virtualize servers and deliver dynamic
data centers that are responsive to the ever-changing demands of
business. Using Citrix XenServer, companies can deploy
high-performance virtual machines rapidly and easily, and manage
them and their related storage and networking resources from a
single easy-to-use management console. The powerful provisioning
capabilities now available in Citrix XenServer make it the only
platform that can integrate the deployment and management of
both virtual and physical servers into a unified dynamic
virtualized infrastructure, making server consolidation and IT
agility a reality today. |
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Citrix 2 - User Application and
Desktop Virtualization (XenDesktop)
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Ronn Martin, Scott Lane, Jeff Pohl,
Derek Baden, Jennifer Kroeger, and Chris Vento |
See the Enterprise Desktop of the
future, Citrix XenDesktop. These high performance Windows
desktops are delivered as a service, rapidly provisioned, and
virtualized. Applications are served up with streaming and
virtualization using Citrix XenApp. What’s more, the Citrix
XenDesktops on display here are secured and highly available
anywhere in the world. |
XenDesktop Beta, XenApp 4.5 Platinum,
EdgeSight 4.5, Access Gateway Advanced 4.5, Access Gateway
Enterprise 8.0, Smart Auditor, Easy Call, Provisioning Server
for DataCenters 4.5, Citrix Password Manager 4.6 |
Presenter Name: Pete Downing
Presenter Title: Senior Product Manager
Presentation Title: Citrix Provisioning Server and
XenDesktop: A Technical Overview
In this session, we will see two of the newest Citrix products
in action, Citrix Provisioning Server and Citrix XenDesktop.
Learn how Provisioning Server compliments existing Citrix XenApp
environments. We will also show how Provisioning Server adds
flexibility and storage savings for both physical and virtual
server environments. Finally, we’ll dive into the unique
features Provisioning Server brings to XenDesktop, for cost
effective desktop virtualization and delivery. |
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Citrix 3 - Citrix ANG Division
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Rick Davis, Sam Spence, William Bowey,
Michael Tarsha, and Roger Gallego |
Users depend on secure and reliable
access to their applications. They may be located half a world
away accessing them over the internet, working from regional or
home offices, or they could be inside your company campus.
NetScaler is an application delivery controller that secures
applications, improves performance, scales XenApp delivery and
is an enabler of business continuity. Come see how Citrix can
improve SharePoint performance, secure access to applications,
and provide global site failover for Disaster Recovery and
Businesses Continuity strategies. |
NetScaler Platinum 8.0, WanScaler 4.2,
Application Firewall |
Presenter Name: Sam Spence
Presenter Title: Systems Engineering Regional Manager
Presentation Title: Creating a Highly Available Web
and Windows delivery Infrastructure
NetScaler is an application delivery
controller that secures applications, improves performance,
scales XenApp delivery and is an enabler of business continuity.
See how Citrix secures application access and makes all tiers of
XenApp access highly available; even in the wake of datacenter
disasters. |
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Data Domain
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Jerry Eagen, Jason Schaaf, Mike Salins,
and Bruce Clark |
Data Domain® is the leading provider
of deduplication storage systems for disk backup and
network-based disaster recovery. It will demonstrate how up to
135TB of backup data can be stored in a 3u DD510 and replicated
to a DR site with minimal use of WAN bandwidth and no tape. |
Data Domain Systems – Model DD510 qty
2, Data Domain Replication – DDOS version 4.4.3.0, Windows
Server 2000 – Wintel Server qty 1, Symantec – NetBackUp 6.5
backup software |
Presenter Name: Bruce Clark
Presenter Title: Director of Technical Marketing
Presentation Title: How to Use Deduplication Storage
Data Domain inline deduplication storage identifies redundant
data as it is being stored, creating a footprint that is 20x
smaller on average than the original data set. In this session,
learn how this technology enables an entirely new replication
and DR strategy for backup and archive data in enterprises of
all sizes.
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eG
Innovations
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Bala Murugan, Tim Clark, and Lance
Lindquist
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eG Innovations, Inc.is a global
provider of virtual and physical IT infrastructure performance
monitoring and triage solutions. The company’s patented
technologies help ensure optimum performance of mission-critical
business services by monitoring of every layer of every tier in
the infrastructure, thereby enabling rapid diagnosis and
recovery in enterprise and service provider networks. |
The eG Enterprise Suite, eG VMware
Monitor, eG Citrix Monitor
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No Break-Out |
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Dell/EqualLogic
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Jon Greco |
The Dell EqualLogic PS Series is the
industry’s leading iSCSI-based midrange enterprise SAN solution
that offers an affordable alternative to traditional storage
systems. The PS Series virtual storage architecture enables
simple set up, automated management, multiple tiers of storage,
on-demand scalability, and seamless interoperability with
virtual infrastructure solutions. |
Dell EqualLogic PS5000 storage array |
No Break-Out |
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Macrovision
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Michael Davis, Lance Dailey, and Eric Serno |
AdminStudio provides systems
administrators with an easy way to prepare reliable software
packages and virtual applications for conflict-free deployment,
offering a complete suite of automated MSI packaging,
virtualization, customization, and testing tools. AdminStudio
enables enterprise IT teams to implement a structured software
packaging process that helps ensure consistent, trouble-free
software deployments and decreases application management costs. |
AdminStudio Enterprise 8.6 |
No Break Out |
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Microsoft
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Chuck Enstall |
At Microsoft, we're motivated and
inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find
creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough
ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.
We are committed long term to the
mission of helping our customers realize their full potential.
Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want
to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to
accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve
our customers.
At Geek Day you will see Windows Server 2008 with Terminal
Services / Windows Vista |
Windows Server 2008 with Terminal
Services / Windows Vista |
- Presenter Name: Chuck
Enstall
- Presenter Title:
Network Technology Specialist
Presentation Title: Presentation Virtualization
with Terminal Services
Presentation Virtualization is one aspect of Microsoft’s
expansive virtualization ecosystem. Terminal Services
provides the platform for Presentation Virtualization and
the new version of Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008
is packed full of great new features and enhancements. Find
out about new functionality like RemoteApp, Web Access,
Gateway, Easy Print and many more.
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NetApp
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Kim Weller, William Jackson, and Julian
Cates |
NetApp will reduce the amount of
primary storage required for your virtual infrastructure by 50%
with their unique FAS deduplication technology. NetApp
technology will greatly simplify the way you deploy, configure,
backup, restore, and replicate your virtual infrastructure.
NetApp will have a hands-on live demo showing how NetApp storage
solutions enhance VMware deployments. Participants are
encouraged come and try the technology . |
FAS3050, Data OnTap 7.2, FAS
Deduplication, SnapMirror, FlexClone, SnapManager for Virtual
Infrastructure, VMware ESX Server 3.5, VMware Virtual Center |
Presenter Name: Kim Weller
Presenter Title: Senior Executive Solutions Architect –
SAN and Virtualization
Presentation Title: Optimizing, implementing and
recovering the Virtualized Data Center with NetApp.
Overview of NetApp solutions for virtualized environments: The
presentation will focus on four key areas of value that NetApp
brings to virtualized environments:
1) Asset Optimization - Discussion of Unified Storage and
capacity saving features like deduplication, thin provisioning,
and RAID-DP Includes deep dive on deduplication technology and
real-world savings.
2) Data backup and recovery: Advanced local and remote backup
and recovery techniques for virtualized environments. Includes
deep dive on how to recover virtual machines and guest OS files
from storage based snapshots.
3) Rapid deployment - Discussion of how to rapidly pre-stage or
deploy VMs with little to no additional storage capacity
required. Includes a deep dive on SnapMirror replication and
important storage aspects of failing over a VMware environment
across sites.
4) Data Replication for Disaster Recovery - How NetApp
simplifies data replication for disaster recovery strategies and
is integrating with server virtualization vendors.
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HP/Opsware
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Jason Jordan, Matt Martin, Lisa
Spencer, and
Tony Vincent |
Our Data Center Automation suite
allows customers to automate the entire management lifecycle -
servers, network devices, storage, and desktop – from cradle to
grave, including off-the-shelf integration you’re your existing
monitoring and ticketing solutions. This drives zero-latency,
higher availability, reduced MTTR and dramatic efficiency gains
in the data center.
What makes our offering so unique
is our integration and coverage across the fundamental
components required for full data center automation—servers,
networks, clients and storage. Each of the Business Service
Automation solutions drives results in the following critical
areas: 1) Automated Compliance Management; 2) Automated
Configuration and Change Management; 3) Lower Operations Cost;
4) Higher Availability; 5) Reduced MTTR |
Server Automation, Network Automation,
Operations Orchestration, and HP Live Network: Version 7.0 |
Presenter Name: Tony Vincent
Presenter Title: Senior Solutions Architect for HP
Software
Presentation Title: HP Software’s Business Service
Automation
We will be presenting on HP’s Business Service Automation
solution. Each component is best-of-breed, and when deployed
together they represent the industry’s only integrated solution.
Designed specifically to address the explosion in IT costs and
the growing complexity of IT application management, HP Business
Service Automation enables customers to manage all aspects of
deploying and managing services, and for the first time, enables
your IT group to see a unified picture of a service’s presence
in the enterprise. |
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Quorum
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Marc Goroff, Mike Backlund, and Joe Viscuglia |
The Quorum technology platform, the
Virtual Optimization System (VOS), is an easy to install, simple
to configure system built specifically to allow IT professionals
to effectively use virtual infrastructures for business
applications. VOS delivers sophisticated application,
system, component, and resource monitoring, intelligent service
level centric decision making, and customizable levels of
automation and optimization. |
Quorum Virtual Optimization System 4.5 |
No Break Out |
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RES Software
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Rick Eilenberger, Dan Palmer, and Denise
Harlan |
RES PowerFuse user workspace
management software enables IT to provide Microsoft Windows
users with a consistent user workspace across multiple devices,
operating systems and application delivery platforms (including
server-based computing, application virtualization, virtual
desktops or streaming technology). This reduces complexity
and costs while enabling comprehensive management of user and
application settings from a single console.
A User Workspace Management product
like RES PowerFuse gives users their own personalized desktop
where and
when they need it, regardless of how the application is
delivered to the user, thus enabling organizations to create
true value from their virtualized environment investments.
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RES PowerFuse 2008 Enterprise Edition
RES Wisdom |
Presenter Name: Dan Palmer
Presenter Title: Senior Systems Engineer, RES Software
Presentation Title: Creating True Value from
Virtualized Environments with User Workspace Management
Many IT organizations are considering virtualized infrastructure
to reduce costs and enable business agility. However,
without a management solution that supports both virtual and
physical resources, virtualization only adds complexity.
Further, the challenge of providing a consistent workspace to
end users is not solved by implementing
virtualization technologies. Virtualized application delivery
and “desktops” must be personalized for the end user. This
means a desktop should not only provide access to the right
applications, but also to the available user-specific settings. |
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Vizioncore
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Tony MacDonald, Kurt Kobylecky,
and
Nadine Morley |
Vizioncore Inc. provides software that
helps organizations safeguard and optimize their virtualized
environments and allows them to extract the maximum return on
their investment in the VMware platform. Vizioncore has a unique
perspective on the industry, which informs and shapes the
development of products that have become industry standard and
essential to running robust virtual environments. Leveraging the
success of its proven, flagship technology, Vizioncore has added
new products to form a complete suite of applications to enhance
VMware Infrastructure 3, including vCharter, vMigrator,
vReplicator, vConverter, vOptimizer, and vPackager. |
vRangerPro 3.2.1, vReplicator 2.1.1,
vCharterPro 3.0
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Presenter Name: Tony MacDonald
Presenter Title: Systems Engineer
Presentation Title: Faster, Better, Smarter……...what’s your
Vizion?
Vizioncore’s software products support essential strategies for
business continuity and high availability of applications,
including backup/restore and disaster recovery. Vizioncore
products also allow for in-depth monitoring of virtual machines
to ensure that bottlenecks are eliminated and maximum
performance is achieved.
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VMware 1 -
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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Todd Dayton, Matt Skipton, and Stan Chopflet |
Use the VMware Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI) solution to host desktop environments
inside virtual machines running in the data center, enabling
end-users to gain remote access from a PC or thin client
terminal. VMware VDM is a
flexible and intuitive desktop management server enabling IT
administrators to quickly provision and tightly control user
access. With these operational and security savings, customers
realize a significant return on investment from their VMware VDI
deployments.
VMware VDI provides users with
desktop business continuity, high availability and disaster
recovery capabilities that until now were available only for
mission-critical server applications. |
VMware VDI |
Presenter Name: Todd Dayton
Presenter Title: Staff Systems Engineer
Presentation Title: VDI- Streamline Management, Reduce
Costs & Increase Availability & Security
VMware VDI is an integrated desktop virtualization solution that
delivers enterprise-class control and manageability with a
familiar user experience. VMware VDI provides new levels of
efficiency and reliability for your virtual desktop environment.
With VMware VDI, you get the proven VMware Infrastructure 3
software along with VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM), an
enterprise-class desktop management server that securely
connects users to virtual desktops in the data center and
provides an easy to use web-based interface to manage the
centralized environment. Organizations worldwide use
VMware VDI to streamline desktop management, increase security,
and reduce costs. Using VMware VDI, the time it takes to deploy
a desktop is typically reduced to minutes, optimizing the value
of IT resources and getting end users productive faster.
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VMware 2 - Life Cycle and Site
Recovery Manager
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Jonathan McCormick, Bill Call, and Lisa Dalebout |
Automate End-to-End Disaster Recovery
in the Data Center with VMware Site Recovery Manager. This
pioneering product uses virtualization to provide end-to-end
disaster recovery management and automation across your entire
data center. VMware Lifecycle Manager addresses the
needs of infrastructure administrators, and allows companies to
implement a consistent and automated process for requesting,
approving, deploying, updating, and retiring virtual machines.
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Life Cycle Manager and Site Recovery
Manager |
Presenter Name: Jonathan
McCormick
Presenter Title: Sr. Systems Engineer
Presentation Title: Disaster Recovery; Automated with
VMware
Disaster recovery is one of the key factors driving customer
adoption and standardization on VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure
platform. VMware Site Recovery Manager introduces a new level of
disaster recovery automation and management capabilities that
reduces the risk, cost, and complexity of an organization’s
disaster recovery plan. |
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VMware 3 - Lab Manager and Stage
Manager
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Irish Spring, Lance Nunes, and Jim Berry |
Pool servers, networking, storage and
other resources and share them across development and test
teams. Create a shared library of complex system environments
for development and testing with VMware Lab Manager. Stage
Manager enables the streamlined and accelerated transition of
complex, multi-tier IT services through the pre-production
stages – such as integration, testing, staging, user acceptance
testing – into production. |
Lab Manager, Stage Manager |
No Break Out |
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Wyse
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Chris Campbell, Ashfaq Iqbal, Russ
Smith, and Henry Fieglein
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Wyse will be demonstrating our
industry leading Thin-client technology and How Wyse Solutions
Make Full Computing Possible Anywhere, Anytime
- Multi-media on a Thin-client
- USB virtualization
- Persistent Session and Hot Desking with Smart Card Technology
- Get “Green” with Thin-clients |
Wyse TCX Multi-media, TCX Dual
Monitor, TCX USB Virtualization, WinTerm V10L and V90L, VMware,
Citrix, Gemalto Smart Cards |
Presenter Name: Henry Fieglein
Presenter Title: Chief Innovation Officer
Presentation Title: Thin Computing Makes Computing
Availability Grow: How Wyse Solutions Make Full Computing
Possible Anywhere, Anytime
This presentation will outline strategies for making use of thin
computing technology from Wyse and its partners to expand the
availability of computing services while decreasing the overall
cost of technology and increasing productivity. It will also
touch on the green computing aspects of thin computing and how
these can also expand the availability of computing solutions.
Henry Fieglein is the CIO of Wyse Technology. In his current
role, Henry analyzes the marketplace and market segments to
determine which solutions Wyse should be creating to address the
market needs. He is able to do this so effectively because he
was previously the CTO of Deutsche Bank and implemented a thin
computing solution for the retail bank which covers 30,000 users
in 10 different countries. |
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Zeus
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John Speraneo, Itzok Umek, and Michael
Lorenz |
Zeus’s ZXTM technology delivers
cost-effective Layer 4 – Layer 7 Management, Acceleration and
Security for web application traffic . Zeus will showcase how
its feature-rich Application Delivery Controller manages
clusters of machines, making networked and web-enabled
applications faster, more reliable, scalable, and easier to
manage.
ZXTM-based products are available as Software (for Linux,
Solaris and FreeBSD servers), as Hardware Appliances and as
Virtual Appliances (for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and
Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2). |
ZXTM software |
No Break-Out |
